There was much work to be done. The machinery of government was new, untested.
要做的工作有很多,政府机构刚成立,还有接受考验。
The supposed importance of influentials derives from a plausible sounding but largely untested theory called the " two step flow of communication" : Information flows from the media to the influentials and from them to everyone else.
人们之所以认为影响者很重要,是源于" 两级传播" 理论。即信息先从媒体流向影响者,然后再从影响者流向其人。这一理论看似合理,但未经验证。